Statistics of the West: At the Close of the Year 1836J. A. James & Company, 1837 - 272 sider |
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... emigrating with arms in their hands . A similar case has occurred in our times , and we ask , what governor has arrested the volunteers who have passed through our country on their way to Texas ? Troops have been publicly enlisted ...
... emigrating with arms in their hands . A similar case has occurred in our times , and we ask , what governor has arrested the volunteers who have passed through our country on their way to Texas ? Troops have been publicly enlisted ...
Side 23
... emigrants to the west , took the first syllable of the Indian name ' Ohiopekhanne , ' because both easy to pronounce and to keep in the memory . The river Ohio , for some distance below Pittsburgh is rapid , and the navigation ...
... emigrants to the west , took the first syllable of the Indian name ' Ohiopekhanne , ' because both easy to pronounce and to keep in the memory . The river Ohio , for some distance below Pittsburgh is rapid , and the navigation ...
Side 67
... emigrants and their families , from the tom- ahawk , when the savage warriors came in sufficient force to drive the hunter from his camp , and the settler from his newly cleared fields . So rapid has been this change , and so complete ...
... emigrants and their families , from the tom- ahawk , when the savage warriors came in sufficient force to drive the hunter from his camp , and the settler from his newly cleared fields . So rapid has been this change , and so complete ...
Side 70
... emigration was now setting towards the forests of Ohio and Kentucky , climbing the rocky barriers of the Alle- gheny ridge , and pouring itself down upon the wooded shores of the Atlantic , the question would not be asked , how the ...
... emigration was now setting towards the forests of Ohio and Kentucky , climbing the rocky barriers of the Alle- gheny ridge , and pouring itself down upon the wooded shores of the Atlantic , the question would not be asked , how the ...
Side 99
... emigration has flowed towards the in- terior parts of the new states . But the settler , in forsak- ing the margins of the large rivers , pursues the meanders of the smaller streams , and selects his farm on the edge of a prairie ...
... emigration has flowed towards the in- terior parts of the new states . But the settler , in forsak- ing the margins of the large rivers , pursues the meanders of the smaller streams , and selects his farm on the edge of a prairie ...
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